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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






2. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






3. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






4. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






5. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






6. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






7. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






8. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






9. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






10. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






11. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






12. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






13. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






14. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






15. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






16. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






17. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






18. A short saying with a moral.






19. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






20. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






21. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






22. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






23. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






24. The main character of a literary work.






25. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






26. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






27. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






28. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






29. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






30. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






31. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






32. A four line stanza in a poem.






33. The selection of words in a literary work.






34. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






35. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






36. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






37. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






38. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






39. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






40. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






42. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






43. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






44. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






45. The dictionary meaning of a word.






46. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






47. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






48. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






49. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






50. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.







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